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More proof all hot political issues become federal sentencing matters

By Douglas A. Berman

Two very different items in this news confirms what I love to tell my students: every hot political issue will in some way and at some time become a sentencing matter.  Here is today's evidence: 1.  The New York Times has this big story suggesting that the Bush Administration is now eager to make federal crimes out of immigration cases that had been previously dealt with civilly.  Here is how the story starts:In temporary courtrooms at a fairgrounds here, 270 illegal immigrants were sentenced this week to five months in prison for working at a meatpacking plant with false documents.  The prosecutions, which ended Friday, signal a sharp escalation in the Bush administration?s crackdown on illegal workers, with prosecutors bringing tough federal criminal charges against most of the immigrants arrested in a May 12 raid...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 24, 2008 (boomark / email).